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     First of all, the most important thing to do after an accident, no matter how minor, is to get out of the way of other traffic, and make sure no one is hurt.   If someone is injured, contact emergency medical personnel (911) immediately.   If someone is hurt in an accident, California law requires that the police be contacted within twenty four hours.   You can report an accident by dropping by a station and filling out a report.   You can also fill out ...

     It seems logical, but a new study by Science Daily confirms what most of us already suspect: elderly driver's are less safe and more dangerous on the road . The Science Daily article  concludes that even healthy adults with safe driving records are less safe and could contribute to auto accidents and injury. Elderly adults tend to make more errors when they drive, even dangerous errors such as not checking blind spots or randomly veering across lanes of traffic. ...

Memorial day is upon us, and the traditional start of Summer is a good time to review some information about drinking and driving. According to the group Alcohol Alert , over 31% of the traffic fatalities in 2007 were caused by an impaired driver. On average, someone is killed by a drunk driver in the U.S. every 40 minutes. These statistics do not include information about traffic accident injuries caused by drunk drivers.

Car accidents are the leading cause of death for citizens between th ...

     A study at the Virginia Tech University Transportation Institute concludes that texting while driving puts the driver at much greater risk of an auto or truck accident.  The study concludes that a driver who is texting while driving is 23 times more likely to be involved in an accident. 

The study concludes that distracted driving is dangerous in three different ways:

• first, and most importantly, it takes a drivers eyes off the road; 
  
• secondly, it takes ...

     A study in the recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows increased automobile crash rates among teen drivers who start school earlier in the morning.  A Professor at Eastern Virginia medical school compared teen crash rates between Virginia Beach, VA., where classes start at 7:20 a.m., to those in neighboring Chesapeake, VA., where classes start over an hour later.  The results indicated that crash rates were at least 25% higher in Virgini ...

     A study conducted by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia , and reported in the latest edition of Science Daily , narrows down the most common errors that lead to teen car crashes.  Teens are involved in fatal car crashes at four times the rate of adults.  The most common critical errors were identified as follows:

     1.  Failure to scan the conditions to identify and detect hazards in road conditions;

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More that 100 survivors and families of those killed in a deadly train crash will get to present their claims to a Los Angeles Judge.The Court is set to begin hearing about the impact the crash had on survivors and families of victims in order to determine how to distribute settlement proceeds approaching $200 million . The crash, which occurred in 2008 in Chatsworth California is believed to have been caused by a Metrolink Engineer who was texting moments before the crash . Twenty five people ...

One of the most important concerns for anyone thinking about embarking on a personal injury lawsuit , be it for a car accident, wrongful death or dog bite situation, is how to pay for the entire process . The aftermath of such a trying time can be filled with expensive medical bills, lost work, and damaged cars, all of which require money that is already in short supply.

Combine that with the expense of hiring a lawyer to represent you in court, and you have another level of stress that you don’ ...

This is a big topic that has many different scenarios. Let's look at a typical type of case, namely an auto accident with no fault of the injured driver.

The first component of recovery are medical expenses . Any costs related to the ambulance, emergency room, primary care physician, chiropractic care or physical care are encompassed within medical expenses. The defendant (or their insurance company) may disagree with respect to the amount of care necessary, or the amount of the costs. As a ge ...